Big Eyes, Small Mouth Revised Second Edition

The two-time Origins Award nominated multi-genre Japanese anime RPG is now available in a more compact Revised Second Edition format! BESM is inspired by the dynamic settings and stories found in a wide range of anime shows, allowing players to create characters from any genre or sub-genre. Comedy or horror, fantasy or science-fiction, mecha action or passionate romance...if you can image it, you can play it. The game features an updated version of the popular and easy-to-learn Tri-Stat System(d6) rule mechanics, which includes expanded sections on magic, mecha, supernatural abilities, skills, and much more.

The revised version of BESM Second Edition contains minimal changes in textual content. Some rules additions and corrections were made as well as substantial layout changes (which only changes the presentation of the book, not the content).

The best version of BESM even if the 3ed edition has its lots of improvement, it is also more hearvyweight rulewise. This book has all : mecha, magic, sentai, shojo, shonen with very light rules. [...]

I came to this game late. I picked up BESM 2.0 at a game auction and really dug it’s simple style, flexibility and shear “funness” of the game. GoO may be no more and BESM 3.0 is the current version, I still need to do something with all the BESM [...]

I do have a physical copy of the fabled third edition, and while it's a beautiful book, I prefer the 2nd edition rules because they are less crunchy. BESM2 was the pennacle of Tri-Stat development because it provides a lot of options with little number [...]